If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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